Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-26
OUR POLICY.

THE DEMOCRAT has taken a new lease
on life, as well as a lease for its new
Office, and enlarged business. As poll
tical paper we propose to be Democratic
all through, defending the rights of man
first, the country next, and the Demo-
cratic party all the time. On local mat
ters it proposes to deal fairly with Gen
tiles and Mormons. We believe we are
doing the greatest good to the people who
are called Mormons, when we urge them
to separate all political power from the
Church. The greatest service We could
render the Territory, would be a com
plete disassociation Of the people from the
power of the priesthood over their
political and temporal affairs. We believe
that no such separation will ever take
place till the people divide up into polit-
ical parties and have full and free discus
sion of political principles. To that end
we are in favor of political parties in
Utah as an educator for all the people.
A dearth of political discussion and
knowledge is the death of the body poll
tic There is always tyranny where the
individual man fails to assert his rights.
The Gentiles who have been here for
years and have taken no part in politics,
need a revival OF religion in their poll
tics, in order to be saved. There is good
reason for this lethargy for the miasma
of this Asiatic political swamp is very
productive of political ague. You have
had no politics, you say, and don't want
any This is the cry of the Republican
organ of this city, but we notice
that when there is place or a
dollar to be obtained, that Republi-
cans are sure to get there if its influence
can prevail. Utah is the dead calm of
political inactivity. There is a morbid
sentimentality, which has usurped all
political thought and action. Gentiles
and Mormons are politically dead; they
should be resurrected by healthy party
spirit. The Republican organ, which
has for long time claimed a corner on
loyalty, and denounced every man who
did not sneeze when it took snuff, has
ceased to be the only organ through
which Americans can speak. The DEMO
Graf proposes to give credit where credit
is due, and in its columns allow full dis
cussion of all public questions.
We shall strike at all tyranny and
urge every man to come out from
under the yoke of press or priest.
Men stand on the corners of the streets
and cry aloud against the domination of
the Mormon priesthood, and these same
men are as intolerant as death. They
alone are immaculate; they alone have a
patent for settling the Mormon question,
and all who have any different method
are subjects of Billingsgate and unspeak-
able ephithets. These radicals, red
mouthed with blasphemy, never have a
word of encouragement for the young men
of Utah. This policy drives all Liber-
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not q better way? We believe there is.
We believe that business, schools, the
influence of American civilization, will
be the most potent agents in the solu-
ton of the Utah question. Public
sentiment embodied in sound laws
must be enforced Let the cry be
law for the law-breakers, and sch ools
for those who are to be lawmakers
THE DEMOCRAT will stand for all that is
reasonable for all the people; We will give
credit where credit is due; we will give con-
demnation to all that strikes against per-
sonal liberty andindividual rights; we will
cry aloud against tyranny in all the land
and from allsources we will encourage in
dustry, and endeavor to call money and
men to this fair Territory, and see that
the voice of Democracy is heard in the
land. In the future one partisan organ
will not voice the will of the people.
THE DEMOCRAT will speak for Democrats
and all liberal minded men.